Fresh on the heels of the Strategic Oil Reserves ploy, the
Clinton/Gore Scheme Team has once again exploited the citizens
of the nation in order to serve their own short-term goals.

It seems as though a warped administration is readily willing
to sacrifice the health and welfare of our female population
if that is what it takes to stop the hemorrhaging of poll numbers
within the Gore campaign.

Gone is the pretense of ensuring that abortions in the United
States are "safe and rare." The choreographers of decline
have succeeded in thrusting a drug-induced termination of life
upon our nation. The sanctioning of this latest method will most
likely lead to a rise in the number of abortions performed and
an increase in the attendant risks, "comforts" of home
notwithstanding.

Female voters are currently the most sought after constituency
in the presidential campaign. However, women must ask themselves
the degree to which they are truly valued.

A candidate in this instance who openly professes to care
deeply about the health and well being of women and privately
seeks to manipulate the political field is harming more than
just the system. Can the desire to create a wedge issue possibly
justify the placement of such a significant segment of the public
in jeopardy?

Reproductive concoctions such as Norplant, Depo-provera, VES,
DES and the Dalkon Shield damaged the health of millions of women
when these items were hastily shoved onto the market. Now RU486,
which uses a mixture of drugs to induce abortion, holds the potential
to create a host of adverse effects as well.

In clinical testing, one out of every 100 patients using the
RU486 protocol ended up in the hospital. Two percent of women
who used the method had such severe bleeding they required surgery.

After years of study, the FDA only four months ago submitted
restrictions which included the mandate that administration of
the RU486 drugs take place within one hour of an emergency room,
thus acknowledging some of the pitfalls of the drugs involved.

What salient facts emerged four months later to compel the
FDA to drop protections for women's health? Curiously, the answer
is none. And so we are left to wonder whether this was a purely
political maneuver.

Euphemisms for anti-life procedures continue to creep into
our public discourse. RU486 has been described for years as a
"morning after pill," which sounds rather comparable
to use of an antacid to subdue an overly seasoned meal.

In actuality, this is a multiple drug process designed for
no other purpose than to extinguish life. A drug protocol with
sufficient toxicity to kill a seven-week-old human embryo by
cutting off nourishment and inducing uterine contractions is
a far cry from any mint flavored heartburn tablet.

If the course of drugs works as intended, after several doctor
visits the woman will deliver a dead child at an indeterminable
time or place. She will also be burdened with the gruesome task
of taking inventory of the baby's body parts, if a potentially
fatal infection is to be avoided.

The overwhelming and persistent psychological trauma that
oftentimes accompanies surgical abortion may be magnified exponentially
when the woman is so directly involved in the fateful act.

If this tactic were merely a foolhardy attempt to move the
polls, poetic justice would dictate that it suffer the same outcome
as the oil reserve fiasco.

As a nation, it would be difficult to accept that for the
most selfish, dishonorable purposes, an administration might
work together with a possible future administration to soft sell
abortion by prescription drugs for political expediency.

What follows in such a succession? Over the counter abortion?
As a presumably decent society, would that surprise us? More
importantly, as a caring society, would that trouble us?